Papers from the 4th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics, Amsterdam, April 10–13, 1985

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Roger Eaton

Olga Fischer

Willem F. Koopman

Frederike van der Leek

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These papers are a selection from papers presented at the 4th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (Amsterdam, 1985). Most studies deal with some aspect of an earlier stage of English, though present day varieties of English are also under investigation. Many of the papers show that there is a growing interest in the question why a certain change has taken place. Furthermore, the volume contains a considerable number of papers on historical syntax.

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 41] 1985. xvii, 341 pp.

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Table of Contents

Preface	vii
List of participants	xi
Proceedings of the 4th ICEHL	1
‘I deny that I’m incapable of working all night’: Divergence of negative structures in British and Indian English Jean Aitchison and Rama Kant Agnihotri	3
Relative Which in late 18th-century usage: the Clift family correspondence Frances O. Austin	15
Lengthening of a in Tyneside English Joan C. Beal	31
The origins of periphrastic Do : Ellegård and Visser reconsidered David Denison	45
Synchronic variation and linguistic change: Evidence from british english dialects Ossi Ihalainen	61
Old English infinitival complements and West-Germanic V-raising Ans M.C. van Kemenade	73
The simplification of the Old English strong nominal paradigms Samuel Jay Keyser and Wayne O'Neil	85
Verb and particle combinations in old and middle English Willem F. Koopman	109
The impersonal verb in context: old English Linnea M. Lagerquist	123
The south African Chain-shift: order out of chaos? Roger Lass and Susan Wright	137
Of Rhyme and reason: some foot-governed quantity changes in English Donka Minkova	163
Lexical variation of early modern English exclusive adverbs: Style switching or a change in progress? Terttu Nevalainen	179
Some remarks on complementation in old English Ruta Nagucka	195
The interpretation and development of form alternations conditioned across word boundaries: The case of Wife’s, Wives and Wives’ Frans Plank	205
A note on the voicing of initial fricatives in middle English Patricia Poussa	235
Expression of exclusiveness in old English and the development of the adverb only Matti Rissanen	253
The great Scandinavian belt M.L. Samuels	269
Discourse markers in early modern English Dieter Stein	283
Assessment of alternative explanations of the middle English phenomenon of high vowel lowering when lengthened in the open syllable Robert P. Stockwell	303
Preliminaries to the linguistic analysis of old Engllish glosses and glossaries Thomas E. Toon	319
The role of INFL in word order change Lisa deMena Travis	331

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Subjects

Linguistics

Historical linguistics

Germanic linguistics

English linguistics

BIC Subject: CF – Linguistics

BISAC Subject: LAN009000 – LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General

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